5 Jun 2008

THURSDAY 13 - 13 CREATURES OF THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Since I started looking into the Greek mythology after my roundtrip through Greece I am getting more and more curious ! Here are some creatures. A horror movie is a love story against the Greek mythology !!

1. Satyrsare a troop of male companions that roamed the woods and mountains. They are often associated with sex drive and vase-painters often portrayed them with uncontrollable erections.

2. Nymphis in human female form. Nymphs live in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and in valleys and cool grottoes. They were the frequent target of satyrs.

3. Cerberus was the hound of Hades, a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail and snakes down his back like a mane,

4. Furies were female, deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead. When the Titan Cronos castrated his father Ouranos and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes (Furies) emerged from the drops of blood.

6. Pegasus was a winged horse that was the son of Poseidon, in his role as horse-god

7. Phoenix is a mythical sacred firebird with a tail that is beautiful gold and red plumage

8. Hippocampus is often called a sea-horse in English, is a creature which has typically been depicted as a horse in its forepart with a coiling, scaly, fishlike hindquarter.

9. Minotaur was a creature that was part man and part bull

10. Typhon is the god of wind. He was described as the largest and most grotesque of all creatures that have ever lived, having a hundred serpent heads.

11.Triton is a god, the messenger of the deep. He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish.

12. Sirens were three dangerous bird-women, portrayed as seductresses, who lived on an island called Sirenum surrounded by cliffs and rocks. Seamen who sailed near were decoyed by the Sirens' enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast.

13.Chimera was a monstrous creature which was made of the parts of multiple animals : "a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire"

I often wonder whether the contractor that built my home had an affair with Triton's wife or did something else to make him very angry sometime in the past - everything to do with water in this place is cursed!

I am so grateful for the pictures with the words. Like Nymphs are connected to groves and water, right? You wouldn't see a nymph in the air or on the street like a fairy - is that right? I'm terrified of Chimeras - weird I know...

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I love painting, writing, travelling and photography. My favorit models are my four cats which I observe with fun and humor. I am German, married to an Italian and we live in Waterloo (15 km from Brussels) / Belgium since many years. Waterloo is a famous place to many tourists, because Napoleon lost his battle here against Wellington and other European countries.